Video Downloads Don't Work

[Anonymous]

At the Trains magazine site there's a video section with .wmv and .mov downloads of a UP Turbine, among others,and they never work. After about 15% is downloaded, the transfer speed goes haywire-speeds way up, then drops way down, then the whole thing starts over.
The problem is NOT on my end, as I can D/L from dozens of other sites with no problems.
Anyone else have this problem?

[Anonymous]

All the videos worked fine for me. I don't know what to say... Are you right clicking and then selecting 'save target as'? That may be the problem.

[locomutt]

Tank,
I am semi- ignorant with computers,however do you have just dial-up,or DSL?
CW & I just switched,and have found out that we can get certain things we couldn't
get before.

Only an observation.

[John Liebson]

I was having this problem, using a dial-up modem.

I exchanged email with the webmaster, who, after a couple of messages, asked me to try downloading a short file (from Classic Trains, if I happen to recall the details correctly.)

When that test did not work, I wrote back to report the failure, and offered to do further testing if it would help. (The downloads of the turbine clips and the shorter one all get cut off by the server.)

That was the last I heard about this; I thought I had saved the emails, but apparently I did not, so I cannot state with assurance when this took place. I'm guessing it was about a week ago.